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AMERICAN LINEAGE 

OF 

HoYT Post, of Detroit, Mich., 1908. 



Summar]^. 
HoYT Post VIII, born at Tinmouth, Rutland County, Vermont, 
April 8, 1837. 
Son of, 

EmroNi) Russell Post VII, born in Rutland County, Vermont, Feb. 
3, 1808, and Almira M. Collins, born at Schaghticoke, N. Y., Dec. 22, 
1805. 
Grandson of, 

Elias Post VI, born at Saybrook, Conn., Jan. 27, 1763, and Mar- 
tha Porter, born at Middlebury, Mass., March 9, 1763. 
Great grandson of, 

RoswELL Post V, born at Saybrook, Conn., about 1728, and Mehit- 
able Jone-s, born at same place about 1731. 
Great great grandson of, 

Abrahatm Post IV (3), born at Saybrook in 1691, and Elizabeth 
RoswELL. born at New Haven, Conn., Sept. 5, 1695. 
Great great great grandson of, 

Abraham Post III (2d), born at Saybrook, Conn., June 9, 1669, 
and HuLDAH, born about 1672. 
Great great great great grandson of 

Abraham Post II (1st), born at Hartford, Conn., 1640, and Mart 
Chulker. born 1642. 
Great great great great great grandson of 

Stephen Post I, born in England, came to America 1630, and set- 
tled first at Newtown (now Cambridge), Mass., Bay Colony, removed 
to Hartford, Conn., 1635, thence to Saybrook, New Haven Colony, 
1648, where he died Aug. 16, 1659, and of Ellenor (some records spell 
Hellenor), born in England and died at Saybrook, Nov. 13, 1670. 



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AMERICAN ANCESTRY 

OF 

HoYT Post, of Detroit, Michigan. 



'Earl^ Posts and Their History. 

Stephen came from Gravesend, England, with the Higginson 
Fleet, 1G30-31, and located at Newtown (now Cambridge) in 1631, and 
was allotted twelve acres of land on the south side of the river, and 
also some "meddow" land. 

His wife, "Ellenop." or "Hellenor" (as some records spell it), 
and sons, John and Thomas, accompanied him. In 1G35, he remioved 
to Hartford, Conn., see Paige's History of Cambridge — also from 
Memorial History of Hartford County. "Shephen Post was at Cam- 
bridge (Newtown) in 1630-31, came to Hartford with the Rev. Thomas 
Hooker in 1635, and was one of the original proprietors. In 1C48, he 
sold his home lot to Thomas Gridley, and removed to Saybrook (then 
under the jurisdiction of New Haven Colony) where he died Aug. 16, 
1659." He held several positions of trust and honor, at Hartford, 
among them that of Constable in 1642. His estate at his decear^e 
inventoried £442-3-0, or $2,211.00, which, for that period, was con- 
sidered a large sum. 

In 1649 he was appointed Lieut, and was directed to complete the 
House (Fort) on the River.— Colonial records, Vol. 1636, 1665, p. 206. 

His wife, Ellenor, died at Saybrook, Nov. 13, 1670. 

Tpiomas Post appears first at Cambridge, as receiving a grant of 
land in 1669. He died between Mar. 28, and April 7, 1691. By his 
will, he appoints Nathaniel Hancock his executor, and directs him to 
pay "my daughter, Rebecca, now at Gravesend, England, £30, to my 
grandson, Thomas Post, and to my grandson, John Satel (Sawtell) 
all my books, except my large Bible." Paige History of Cambridge. 
He is supposed to be a brother of Stephen's. He could not have been 
a son, because Thomas, the son of Stephen, was one of the proprietors 
of Norwich, Conn., and associated with him in the construction of the 
Fort at Saybrook in 1649, besides his will mentions his grandson, 
Thomas Post, whose father must have been a son of Tht)mas, Sr. It 
also appears that Thomas married Elizabeth Real, or that must have 
been her maiden name, because the will of Thomas Beal, who died 
at Cambridge, in 16G1, m.entions Thomas Post, and Elizabeth Post, 



his daughter, he also mentions a Richard Post, who the records of 
Woburn state was early at Woburn, Mass., was on the tax list in 
1645, and is mentioned as being of the age of 40 in 1667. He received 
a grant of meadow land in 1648. He married, Feb. 27, 1649, Susannah 
Sutton, who died leaving no issue. In 1662 (Nov. 18) he married 
Mary Tyler, by whom he had (1), Mary, Sept. 29, 1664; (2) Susannah, 
Sept. 13, 1666, and (3) John, April 14, 1669. 

He was taxed to build a meeting house in 1672, and was on the 
tax list of 1679-80, when he moved westward. 

Thompson, in his History of Long Island, mentions an Isaac Post, 
and a Richard Post as of Huntington in 1666. They doubtless were 
the representatives of the line of Richard of Woburn, as subsequent 
history carries the name of Richard for a number of generations in 
New York. In Vol. 7, N. E. Genealogical and Histoiical Register, page 
359, mentions Richard Post at Woburn, aged 40, 1667; Robert Post 
at New Haven in 1670. Thompson's History of Long Island mentions 
a Richard Post at Southampton in 1G40, who is supposed to be the 
same whom we find at Woburn in 1645. 

Vol. 48, p. 208, of N. E. Gen. and Hist. Register states "That 
William Post purchased of Van der Schawm a lot in 1683, situated on 
what is now Broadway, N. Y., which lot adjoined the Slidell (John) 
lot, which was sold by his descendants in 1819." 

The name of "Post" is found in the Counties of Westchester, 
Duchess and Albany long after the War of the Revolution, and pre- 
sumed to be of the line of Richard. 

This completes the history of the emigrant of the name of Post 
to America, so far as traced. 



Genealogical — Line of Hoyt Post. 

First Generation. 
Stephen, by Elenor, his wife. 

Ciiildren, II Generation. 

(1) John II, born near Gravesend, County of Kent, England, 1626, 
died at Norwich, Conn., Nov. 27, 1701, aged 84 years. 

(2) Thomas II, born in England in 1628-9, died at Norwich, 1701. 
See Norwich and Saybrook records. 

(3) Katherine II, born probably at Newtown (Cambridge), 1630- 
31, married Alexander Chulker, Sept. 29, 1650. Saybrook records and 
Vol. 2, N. E. Gen. and Hist. Reg., page 27. 

(4) Abraham II, born probably in Hartford, in 1640-1, died at Say- 
brook about 1713-15, according to Saybrook and Colonial Records. 



There were other children born to Stephen and Ellenor, so says 
the record, but their names are not given. 



Children, III Generation. 

John II, married Hester, daughter of William Hyde, Mar. 10, 1653, 
who died Nov. 13, 1703. 
Children: 

(1) Sarah III, born in 1653, married Capt. John Hough. 

(2) Lydia III, born in 1655, married first Abel Moon, and 2d, 
Joseph Hunt. 

(3) John III, born April 12, 1657, died in 1690. 

(4) Margraet, born 1659, married Caleb Abell. 

(5) Mary, born 1665, married Nathaniel Rudd. 

(6) Samuel III, born Mar. 8, 1668. 

Thomas II, married 1st, Mary Hyde, Jan., 1656. She died Mar., 
1661, leaving an infant daughter, Sarah, who married Thomas Vin- 
cent, of Norwich. He married, 2d, Sept. 2, 1663, Rebecca, daughter of 
Obadiah Bruen, of New London, Conn., by whom he had, Obadiah, 
who died in 1703, without issue; 2d, Joseph, born 1681. 

Both John and Thomas were prominent at Norwich. They took 
freeman's oath in 1653. John was appointed by Gen'l Court to lay out 
and fix the line between New London and Mohegan, in May, 1680, and 
determine the bounds of each. Colonial Recs., Vol. 1680, pp. 176, 189. 
1690, appointed to survey and fix bounds of the lands of Captain 
Fitch, also to fix line between Stonnington and Preston. Vol. from 
1689-1707, pages 57, 133, 150, 235. 

Both were among the original proprietors of Norwich, they were 
members of the First Church, and were the contractors for the con- 
struction of the building, 1654. 

(1) Samuel III, the son of John Post II, son of Stephen I, m.arried 
Ruth Lathrop, and had (2) Samuel IV, born in Dec, 1698, who mar- 
ried Sarah Griswold of Guilford, they had (3) Samuel V, born Feb. 
12, 1736, who was the only son.^ He was a goldsmith in New London. 
All trace of him was lost after the War of the Revolution. Samuel V 
had several daughters. 

Nathaniel IV, son of Samuel III, 1st son John IT, son of Stephen I. 
born in 1702, married Abigail Birchard, had two sons. John V, who 
died without issue; Jabez V, born in 1730. Nathaniel died in 1790. 
and Abigail, bis wife, in 1792, aged 89 years. 

Jabez V, son of Nathaniel IV, son of Samuel III, son of John II, 
married Martha, daughter of Jedediah Hyde, and inherited the old 
homestead. Jabez and Martha Hyde Post had two sons, named 
respectively Jabez VI and Jeddediah VI. 



Jabez served in Capt. Jeddedlah Hyde's Co., 4th. Reg., Col. Dur- 
kee, in the War for Independence; was at Valley Forge and at Battle 
of Monmouth, etc. P. 184, Conn. Men in the Revolution. 

Jeddediah VI removed to Newtown, now Paterson, New Jersey. 
He reached the rank of Captain during the War of the Revolution. 
His widow, Maria Post, born at or near Paterson, N. J., in 1754, died 
in 18G0, at the age of 106 years. Her funeral was attended by some 
40 of her descendants. N. E. Gen. and Hist. Register. 

Joseph HI, son of Thomas II, son of Stephen I, married his second 
cousfn, Maky Post, of Saybrook. He died in 1749, leaving one son, 
Joseph IV, and seven daughters. 

The foregoing completes the history, so far as traced, of the lines 
of John and Thomas Post, and we now proceed with that of Abraham, 
son of Stephen, as it is from him the subject of this memoir descends. 



Abraham II Post (1st), son of Stephen I, the emigrant, by his 
wife "Ellenor," born at Hartford in 1G40-1, married in 1663, Mary 
Chui^ker, a sister of Alexander, who married Katherine Post. (Say- 
brook records.) 

Their children, 



IV Generation, 
were, 

(1) Stephen III, born at Saybrook, Dec. 2, 1664. 

(2) Anna III, born at Saybrook, May 4, 1667. 

(3) Abraham III (2nd), born at Saybrook, June 9, 1669-70. 

(4) James C. Ill, born at Saybrook, Mar. 4, 1670. 

(5) Hester III, born at Saybrook, Dec. 14, 1672. Died Jan. 16, 
1673. 

(6) Daniel III, born at Saybrook, Nov. 28, 1673. 

(7) Gurdon (Jordan) III, born at Saybrook, May 27, 1676. 

(8) Joseph III, born at Saybrook, Feb. 6, 1677. 

(9) Mary III, born at Saybrook, idld. 

(10) Ellenor III, born at Saybrook, Feb. 10, 1682. 

Mary, wife of Abraham, died Mar. 21, 1683. Saybrook records and 
Vol. 4, p. 140 N. E. Gen. and Hist. Reg. 

Abraham Post first took freeman's oath May 11, 1665. In 1667, 
the General Court appointed him Ensign of the Saybrook Train Band. 
Is promoted to Lieutenancy in 1680; same year appointed one of a 
committee to fix the line between Mohegan and New London. May, 
1681, appointed to confer with Chief Uncas, and determine the bound- 
ary of lands of Edward Griswold; was a deputy of the General Court in 
1670. He recovers a judgment against Benjamin Wright. See fore- 



going. Colonial Records. New Haven and Conn. Colonies Vol. 1, pp. 
19, CO, Vol. from 1G68 to 1678, pp. 51, 71, 81, 181. Vol. 1679 forward. 

The will of "Uncas" Chief Sachem of the Mohegan Indians, 
executed in 1683, recorded at Norwich, Conn., bequeaths 4,000 acres 
of land in the present counties of New London and Windham, Conn., 
to Abraham Post (written Past), see Vol. 13, p. 234, N. E. Gen. and 
Hist. Register. (The above will was drawn by Captain Thomas Stan- 
ton, a maternal ancestor of Hon. Thomas W. Palmer, of Detroit.) 

Abraham HI, Post, (2d.), son of Abraham II, (1st), son of Stephen 
Post, the emigrant, born in Saybrook, June 9, 1669, married, 1689, 
HULDAH . . 

Their children were: 

Abraham IV (3d) born at Saybrook, 1690-1. 

Stephen IV (2), born at Saybrook, 1692. 

Daniel IV (2), born at Saybrook, 1696. 

Nathan IV (1st), 1706. 

Andover and Saybrook Records, he had other sons and daughters, 
names not found. 

Abraham III (2d )was appointed a Lieutenant of the train band of 
Saybrook, by the General Court or Assembly in 1737. Vol. 7 Col. Rec. 
of Conn., p. 102. 

He occupied other positions of honor and trust in the town and 
church. He died in the early 40's, according to the records as to date, 
as both the church and town records were destroyed by fire. 



Generation V. 

Abraham IV Post (3d), son of Abraham III, (2d), son of Abraham 
II, (1st), son of Stephen the emigrant, born 1690, married, 1714-16, 
Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Roswell, of New Haven, Conn., by 
his wife Lydia, the daughter of Thomas Trowbridge. 

Owing to the destruction of the records, the names and date of the 
birth of their children are obtained through tradition, and contem- 
poraneous history, and as far as traced, are as follows: 

"Abraham (styled Jr.) in 1774 appointed Ensign" 2d Company 
of Col. Heman Swift's Battalion. 

"Nathan, who commanded armed brig 'Martial' and armed sloop 
'Revenge.' " 

Huldah, "Rebecca," Roswell, William, who went to Vermont. 

As "Roswell" and "Russell" were subsequently adopted as Chris- 
tian names, a sketch of the Roswell family may prove of interest. 



Lineage of Elizabeth Roswell Post, loife of Abraham lY Post 3d. 

William Roswell was one of the proprietors of Brainford, Conn., in 
1667. He removed from thence to Charlestown, Mass., in 1668. It 
would appear that he had resided in Charlestown prior to his purchase 
in Brainford, as in 1654, he married Katherine, daughter of the Hon. 
Rich'd Russell of Charlestown; was admitted to the Church in 1656. 
His estate, house and 16 acres and 2i/^ acres of common. Vol. 2, p. 823, 
Wyman's Charlestown. From Charlestown, William Roswell removed 
to New Haven, where he became prominent in public affairs. Was 
tendered a commission as Captain in a troop of horse, prior to King 
Philip's War, which he declined; was Judge of the Court before and 
after the Andros Usurpation, but was removed in 1690 and 1692, with 
Edward Palms and Gershow Buckley, opposed the Charter Government. 
He died at New Haven, July 14, 1694, aged 64. 

His wife, by second marriage, died Aug. 16, 1698. 

The children of William and Katherine (Russell) Roswell were, 
first, Richard, born at Charlestown in 1665; second, Maud, born at 
New Haven, 1667; third, William, born June 16, 1670, and John, 

born 1672. He married the second time, Elizabeth , by whom 

he had, Elizabeth, Oct. 1, 1679, who was the second wife of Gov. Gur- 
don Saltonstall. She died Sept. 12, 1710, and the Governor, Sept. 20, 
1724. See Savage Gen. Dictionary. Caulkins says "Elizabeth was the 
only child of William Roswell," but Judge R. G. says "this is an error, 
she was the only child by his second wife," and this agrees with the 
New Haven Records. 

Richard Roswell, son of William and Katherine (Russell) Roswell, 
married at the age of only 16, Lydia, daughter of Thomas Trowbridge 
of New Haven, in 1681, and had, 1st, Sarah, Dec. 5, 1682; 2d, Dorcas, 
Dec. 21, 1684; 3d, Lydia, Aug. 21. 1687; 4th, Elizabeth, born Sept. 5, 
1695, who married Abraham Post of Saybrook. He had another 
daughter, Katherine, v/ho died in infancy. Richard died Mar., 1702, 
leaving a large estate to be divided among his four daughters. He 
was extensively engaged in the West India trade. 



Generation VI. 

Roswell V (1st), son of Abraham IV (3rd), son of Abraham III 
(2d), son of Abraham II (1st), son of Stephen I, the emigrant, married 
Mehitable, daughter of Nathaniel Jones, of Saybrook, Conn., Nov. 29, 
1750. She died Nov., 1778. Married, second, Esther Meeker, at Rut- 
land, Vt., June, 1779. He died at Tinmouth, Vt., Jan. 3, 1814, in his 
88th year. 



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The children of Roswell (1st) and Mehitable (Jones) Post: 

(1) Mehitable, born Oct. 12, 1751, died July 1779. 

(2) Roswell, born May 10, 1753, died 1827. 

(3) Jared, born June 26, 1755. 

(4) Huldah, born April 25, 1757. 

(5) Reuben, born Oct. 25, 1759. 

(6) Elias, born Jan. 27, 1763. 

(7) Edmond, born Mar. 1, 1765, died at Saybrook, May 27, 1768. 

(8) Martin, born Aug. 12, 1767, died Jan. 15, 1777. 

(9) Amanda born Aug. 13, 1771, married Eliphalet Sampson. 

(10) Temperance, born June 8, 1774. 

The children of Roswell (1st) and Esther (Meeker) Post: 

(11) Roswell (2d), born June 3, 1781. 

(12) Levi, born Feb. 8, 1783. 

Roswell Post served as Lieutenant in the French and Indian War, 
was appointed first as Ensign in the 10th Company of the 7th Regi- 
ment, 1771. (See pages 435, Vol. 13, Colonial Records, Conn.) Was 
promoted to Lieutenancy, 1774, of same company and regiment. Page 
274, Vol. 14. He accompanied Allen to Otter Creek, now Rutland, and 
was with him in the land controversy between New Hampshire and 
New York, just prior to the Revolution. 

He was one of the original members of the First Congregational 
Church of Rutland, Vt., when the church was organized Oct. 5, 1788, 
and was transferred in October, 1803, to Tinmouth, Vt. 

According to the history of Rutland County he held the rank of 
Lieutenant in Col. James Mead's regiment, which was engaged in 
guarding the frontier. 

Roswell Post and William Post settled in Rutland. Vt., 1778-9. 
They were prominent from 1779 to 1790 in Civil and Church affiairs, 
occupying positions of trust and honor. Roswell was Selectman for 
a number of years, and William served as Moderator. 

Another brother, *Jared, came a number of years after. P. 320, 
Hist. Rutland County. 

Roswell, William, Reuben, Elias and Joel Post were on Rutland 
Freeman List in 1780. See same authority. 

His son Reuben was Corporal in Capt. Samuel Adams Company, 
Col. James Mead's regiment (3d Vermont). Elias, brother of Reuben, 
was in same company. See 536, N. Y. Archives. 



*ls not this a son of Roswell? 



Generation Vtl. 

Elias VI, son of Roswell V (1st), son of Abraham IV (3d), son 
of Abraham III (2nd), son of Abraham II (1st), son of Stephen I, the 
emigrant, born at Saybrook, Conn., Jan. 27, 1763; married Martha 
PoKTER, daughter of Judge Thomas Porter, of Rutland and Tinmouth. 
She was born March 9, 1763. and died 1837. Elias died at Mt. Holly, 
Vt., Sept. 4, 1851. 

The children of Elias and Martha (Porter) Post were: 

(1) Eli K., born Nov. 5, 1789. 

(2) Electa, born Mar. 1, 1791, died July 19, 1875. 

(3) Edmond, born Nov. 26, 1792, died May 4, 1794. 

(4) Theoda, born Nov. 17, 1795. 

(5) James Alexis, born Dec. 20, 1795. 

(G) Sally, born Jan. 13, 1800, married Daniel Peck, Jan. 13, 1837, 

(7) John Jackson, born June 19, 1802. 

(8) Edmond Russell, born Feb. 3, 1808, married June 6, 1836, 
Almira M. Colvin, nee Collins. She was born in Schaghticoke, N. Y., 
Dec. 22, 1805, and died at Birmingham, Mich., October 20, 1896. Ed- 
mond died in Birmingham, Michigan, Nov. 5, 1891. 

Elias Post was a member of Captain Samuel Allen's Company, 
Col. James Mead's Militia Regiment (3d). Pay Book for 1780, pages 
536-37, New York Archives. The company was with Col. Warner at 
the battle of Hubbarton. 

The records of the War Department show that Elias Post, rank 
not stated, served in Ensign Isaac Cushman's command of the Militia 
belonging to Rutland, Vermont, Revolutionary War. He is shown to 
have served eleven days — four on an expedition to Ticonderoga in 
March, 1780, and seven on an expedition to Fort Vengeance in June, 
1780; also to have served in Capt. Samuel Allen's company of Ver- 
mont Militia raised by order of Brigadier General Allen, Revolutionary 
War, for twenty-three days, from Oct. 13 to Nov. 14, 1780; also to 
have served in Capt. Samuel Williams' company of Militia in Col. 
Ebenezer Allen's reg'ment, Revolutionary War, seven days in alarms 
during the year 1780; also to have served fourteen days, from Oct. 21 
to Nov. 2, 1781, in Capt. Samuel Williams' company of Militia in Col. 
Thomas I.ee's regiment, Revolutionary War. 

The records of the Bureau of Pensions show that: 

"Elias Post made application for pension Jan. 29, 1834, at which 
time he was residing in Rutland, Vt., and 71 years of age, and his 
pension was allowed for sixteen months' actual service as a private 
in the Vermont troops. Revolutionary War; a part of the time he 
served under Capt. Thomas Sawyer and Col. Walbridge. He enlisted 
at Rutland, Vt." 

Elias Post was commisioned Lieutenant of the 4th Compnay, 3rd 
Regiment, 4th Brigade, Vermont Militia, by Governor Moses Robinson 



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on May 4, 1790; and Captain of the same company by Governor 
Thomas Chittenden June 27, 1791; and by the same governor on 
Aug. 1, 1794, as Aide-de-Camp to Isaac Tichenor, Major General of 
the 2nd Division, Vermont Militia. These commissions are now in 
possession of Hoyt Post. 



Generation VIII. 

Edmond Russell VII married Almira M. (Chaffee) (Colvin), nee 
Collins, June 6th, 1836. 

Their children were: 

(1) Hoyt, born at Tinmouth, Vermont, April 8, 1837, married 
Helen Deborah, daughter of George W. Hudson, of Detroit, Michigan, 
Feb. 7, 1867. 

(2) James Alexis, born at Tinmouth, Vermont, Nov. 18, 1838, 
married Katharine M. Goodwin, April 5, 1864. 

(3) Verona Louisa, born Feb. 7, 1841, at Mt. Holly, Vt. 

(4) Julia Laurentia, born Jan. 10, 1843, in Brighton, N. Y. 

(5) Xenia, born Feb. 11, 1848, in Dayton, Ohio. 

In 1841 Edmond Russell Post moved from Mt. Holly, Vermont, to 
Brighton, about three miles from Rochester, New York, by way of tne 
Erie canal. About the same time the family of his wife's sister, 
Charlotte Adelia, and her husband, Zeri Cushman Colvin, removed 
from Vermont to Rochester. Mr. Post occupied a small farm at 
Brighton and raised saffron for New York druggists. He also had a 
cider mill. In 1844 he removed to Monroe avenue in the City of 
Rochester, near the corner of Alexander street, where he carried on 
the milk business. 

In 1847 Mrs. Post's father, Asa Collins, and his wife and sou, 
William Henry, and daughter Verona Louise, together with his daugh- 
ter Lydia and her husband, Harley Round, and their two sons, Asa C. 
and Byron, came on from Vermont to Rochester, where the other two 
daughters, Mrs. Post and Mrs. Colvin, and their families joined them, 
being nineteen in all, and constituting all the descendants of said 
Asa Collins, and embarked on a line canal boat with all their house- 
hold goods, on their way to Cincinnati, Ohio. Thej traveled by the 
Erie canal from Rochester to Buffalo, by steamer to Erie, Pennsyl- 
vania, where, on account of a storm, they were landed upon the pier, 
and transported thence to Erie by schooner, and from Erie by canal 
again to Wheeling, and from Wheeling down the Ohio River by 
steamer to Cincinnati. 



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From Cincinnati Mr. Post moved by canal to Dayton, Olilo, where 
he engaged in the mercantile business, and from there in the fall of 
1849 removed again by canal to Toledo, and by steamer to Detroit, 
Michigan, where he again engaged in the dairy business. He after- 
wards removed to Royal Oak, where he had a small farm, and was 
for several years supervisor of the township, and thence he moved to 
Birmingham, Michigan, where his children were educated in the 
Birmingham Academy and afterwards in the Michigan University at 
Ann Arbor. Mr. Post's first visit to Detroit was in 1832, when he was 
employed in the Ewer's cooper shop near the corner of Jefferson 
avenue and First street, and had a severe attack of the cholera there. 
His son James Alexis was graduated from the University of Michigan 
in 1861. and received medical diploma from that institution in 1866. 
He was assistant surgeon and afterwards surgeon of the 28th Kentucky 
Regiraent in the Civil War, and afterwards practiced medicine In 
Jefiersonville, Ind., and in Birmingham and Detroit, Mich., and has 
been secretary of the Association of Charities in Detroit since 1885. 
Edmond's three daughters were teachers, and Verona was for several 
years assistant to the principal of the Wilkins School in Detroit. 



Generation IX. 

KovT Post VIII. born in Tinmouth, Vt., April 8, 1837, son of 
Edmond Russell VII and Almira M. (Collins) Post, grandson of Ellas 
VI and Martha (Porter) Post; great grandson of Roswell V. and Me- 
hitabel (Jones) Post, great great grandson of Abraham IV (3) and 
Elizabeth Roswell Post, great great great grandson of Abraham III (2) 
and Hnldah Post, great great great great grandson of Abraham. II (1st) 
and Mary (Chulker) Post, great great great great great grandson of 
Stephen I and EUenor Post; married Helen Deborah, daughter of 
George W. Htjuson. of Detroit, Feb. 7, 1867. 

Hoyt Post was educated in the public schools of Rochester, N. Y., 
Dayton, Ohio, and Detroit, Mich.; Academy at Birmingham, Mich.; 
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.; degree of A. B. 1861 and 
LL. B. 1863. He is a member of the Memorial Committee of the 
Alumni of the University to collect funds for the building of a 
Memorial Hall on the Campus. Commenced practice of law in Detroit 
in 18C3, and January 1, 1867, formed a partnership with Albert H. 
Wilkinson, which was succeeded by firm of Wilkinson, Post and 
Oxtoby, still in active practice. He was Reporter of Supreme Court 
of Michigan, 1872-78; member Michigan Fish Commission, 1889-95; 
President Peninsular Electric Light Com.pany, St. Clair Edison Com- 
pany, Grosse Pointe Water Works, East Side Electric Company, Delray 
Terminal Railroad Company, and The Eta Association of Kappa Alpha 



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Theta; Vice-President Michigan Mutual Life Insurance Company, and 
Detroit Steel Cooperage Company; Director and member Executive 
Committee Micliigan Fire and Marine Insurance Company; Director 
Michigan Savings Bank, Plymouth United Savings Bank, Edison Il- 
luminating Company, Washtenaw Light and Power Company, The 
Huetteman and Cramer Company, Standard Tie Company, Detroit 
Graphite Manufacturing Company, Telfer Coffee Company; Member 
Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity, Detroit Board of Commerce, the Alumni 
Association of the University of Michigan, and the following clubs: 
Wayne, University, Old Club, Bankers' Club, Prismatic, and Acanthus; 
was President Detroit Bar Library Association and New England 
Society, and Treasurer Detroit and Northwestern Railway; and a 
Director of the Ideal Manufacturing Company. The ofHce of the firm 
is at 6 and 7 McGraw Building, where they have been located over 
thirty years. Mr. Post's residence is 342 Cadillac avenue, where he 
has lived more than twenty-one years. His daughter Myra was grad- 
uated from the University of Michigan in 1895, and his daughter 
Helen in 1903, and his son Hoyt also attended that institution thi-ee 
years. 

Children of Hoyt and Helen Deborah (Hudson) Post. 

(1) Fanny H. IX, born Dec. 2, 1867, married John P. Robison, of 
Elkchester, near Lexington, Kentucky, June 6, 1894; now living in 
Detroit, Mich. They had son, John Peter, born March 15, 1895, died 
April 17, 1904; son, Hoyt Post, born May 3, 1897, died May 16, 1897; 
son, Elon Clifford, born Nov. 27, 1898; and daughter, Deborah Louise, 
born Dec. 29, 1900. 

(2) Sarah M. IX, born Jan. 25, 1870, married John Collins, Oct. 19, 
1893. died July 27, 1896, at Detroit, Michigan. Buried at Woodmere 
Cemetery, Detroit. 

(3) Myra IX, born Mar. 4, 1873, married William B. Cady, of 
Detroit, Mich., June 30, 1904. Before her marriage she was teacher of 
English Literature and Composition in Detroit High School and in 
Detroit University School. Mr. Cady is member of the law firm of 
Shaw, Warren, Cady and Oakes in Detroit. 

(4) Elon IX, born Sept. 29. 1875, died Sept. 17, 1893. Buried at 
Woodmere Cemetery, Detroit, Mich. 

(5) Helen IX, born July 5, 1881, married Walter D. Steele, of 
Chicago, 111., June 29, 1907; had daughter, Margaret, born May 28, 1908. 

(6) Hoyt IX, born Oct. 4, 1885. 

Hoyt Post VIII is a prominent attorney at Detroit. He takes his 
Christian name from David Hoyt. an intimate friend of his father 
and grandfather. David Hoyt was first of Rutland, last of Tinmouth, 
Vt., well known in private and public circles. 



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Miscellaneous Items Connected Tvith Other Branches of the 
Family of Posts, Which May Prove of Interest to All. 

Stephen Post, 2d, born at Saybrook, Conn., Dec. 4, 1664, son of 
Abraham 1st, son of Stephen 1st, was one of the original founders of 
the town of Hebron, Conn., 1707. Hollister's Hist, of Conn., p. 380. 

His son, Stephen 3d, served in a Connecticut line regiment, Capt. 
Hungerford's Co., Col. McCollum commanding regiment; p. 580, "Conn. 
Men in Revolution." Was United States pensioner, under act of Con- 
gress passed 1818. 1830, p. 656, "Hist. New London and Conn. Men in 
Revolution." 

His children were: 1st, Lois, born 1744; 2d, Stephen (4th), born 
May 10, 1747; 3rd, Elizabeth, born May 24, 1752; 4th, Beriah, born 
Dec. 5, 1759. Vol. 52, p. 416, N. E. Hist, and Gen. Reg. Bolton, Conn., 
town records. 

Children of Gideon, son of Stephen 3d, by Mary Post, his wife: 
1st, Mary, born Nov. 12, 1732; 2nd, Hannah, born Jan. 14, 1734; 3rd, 
Juzaman, born May 3, 1737; 4th, Levi, born Nov. 3, 1740; 5th, Joseph, 
born April 3, 1743; 6th, Esther, born Jan. 2, 1745; 7th, Oliver, born 
Oct. 26th, 1746; 8th, Mercy, born Nov. 27. 1748. Vol. 52, N. E. Gen. and 
Hist. Reg. Bolton, Conn., town records. 

Abiatha Post, lineal descendant of Stephen 2d, of Hebron, married 
Obadiah Newcomb, of Hebron, Conn., and was the mother of Hon. 
Obadiah Newcomb 2nd, who died Mar. 25. 1830, in London Terrace, 
West 23rd street, New York City. Vol. 11, p. 286. N. E. Gen. and 
Hist. Reg. 

Phineas Post, son of Stephen 2nd, of Hebron, was on the tax list 
of town of Lebanon, Conn., in 1740. Vol. 20, N. E. Gen. and Hist. 
Reg, p. 40. 

The follov/ing are of the line of Stephen 1st, Abraham 1st, and 
Stephen 2nd: 

Charles C. Post, born about 1763, married, in 1785. Jane Ann Van 
Husan. Her father was son of Caleb Van Husan. son of Abraham Van 
Husan, of Fishkill . She was born in 1773, died 1833. Vol. 2, p. 97, 
"American Ancestry." (This would make her own cousin of the late 
Caleb Van Husan, of Detroit.) 

James C. and Myees L. were sons of Charles C. Post, of Greenport, 
and Jane Ann Van Husan. his wife. 

Nathan Post, son of Charles Post, born in 1827. married 1st, in 
1852, Cornelia Lapham; 2nd, Mary, daughter of Miles Tinbrook, of 
Flinters Mills, N. Y. She was born in 1800. Vol. 2. American Ances- 
try. 

General Philip Sidney Post, born in the town of Florida, Mont- 
gomery County, N. Y., Mar. 19, 1833, was a Brigadier General in the 
Civil War, a member of Congress, 1886; married, May 24, 1866, Cor- 



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nelia Alniira, daughter of Hon. Townsend Post, who was son of Col. 
Garrett Post, of the Revolution, and grandson on the maternal side 
of Col. John Hathom, of Orange Co., N. Y.; in command at the battle 
of Munsink, on the Hudson, 1779; a great grandson of Major Jacobus 
Post, a soldier of the last French and Indian War, and in the War for 
Independence. General Philip Sidney Post was son of Philip Schuyler, 
born at Warwick, N. Y., Aug. 1795, who was a son of Peter Schuyler 
Post. He died at General Philip Sidney's, at Galesburg, 111., Sept. 5, 
ISCl. The children of General Philip Sidney and Cordelia Almira Post 
are Henrietta and Hellena. Vol. 9, p. 40, American Ancestry. 

GiLnERT Post, from Belleville, New Jersey, married Elizabeth, 
daughter of Isaac Alden, of Waterbury, Conn., April 1, 1830, and had, 
John H., Mar. 22, 1832, and William R., Mar., 1834. He adopted George 
W. Tucker, who was born Feb. 24, 1841. History of Waterbury, Conn. 
(Gilbert was doubtless of the line of Jeddediah, Nathaniel IV, Samuel 
III.) 

Jeddediah and John H. Post owned what was known as "the 
Glastonbury Anchor Iron Works," which they sold to George Pratt 
in 1848. These works were first established prior to the Revolution, 
and cast the cannon and made the anchors for the armed vessels of 
Long Island Sound, two of which were commanded by Nathan Post. 
History of Glastonbury, Conn. 

Nathan Post. Jp., and Reuren Post were on the muster roll of 
the Guilford Company in the expedition against Ticonderoga. See 
Hist. Guilford, Conn., p. 484. 

Nathan, Sr., commanded the armed brig "Martial," 1776. She 
■ried 85 menCpare G05) ; also the armed sloop "Revenge," 1779, whirh 
he sunk in the Penobscot to avoid capture by the British, p. 606, 
"Connecticut Men in the Revolution." 

Nathan, Jr., was with Capt. Huntington in the Lexin,'jton Alarin-i, 
1775, and with Captain Jones, 1777; p. 506 of same. 



Mem. Post Gen. from the N. E. and Hist. Register. 

Vol. 27, p. 238: "In his will written July IG. 1638, William Rain- 
borrow mentions as his sister, 'Sarah Post, the wife of Mr. Post,' from 
which it would seem her maiden name was Sarah Rainborrow, of 
London." 

Vol. 33, p. 39: Eldred Post was a seaman on board an American 
vessel, captured by the British and was committed to Forton Prison, 
Eng., Feb. 18, 1779. 

Vol. 33, p. 31: Margraet Post, married Caleb Abell, of Norwich, 
Conn. 



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Vol. 36, p. 392: Rebecca Post, of Norwich, married JoeJ Hayes, 
1751; he was a grand-uncle of the late President Rutherford Hayes. 

Vol. 39, p. 228: Jotham Post, in 1866, married Eliza Dwight, born 
1838. She was a lineal descendant of the Rev. Daniel Rogers. 

Vol. 40, p. 33: Isaiah Post died in the Army, Sept., 1776. 

Vol. 43, p. 190: Rev. Jeddediah G. Post's wife, Sophia, died April 
9, 1846. 

Vol. 47, p. 174: Sarah S. Post married Josiah Champion Gil- 
bert, Sept., 1848. She was born April 29, 1821, in Hebron, Conn. 

Vol. 43, p. 312: Jotham Post, Sr., was a M. C. from N. Y., 1792. 

Vol. 47, p. 408: Joan, relict of William Etheridge, of Burley, Parish 
of Ringwood, County* of Southampton, Eng., in her will, approved Mar. 
1, 1715, makes a bequest to her kinswoman, Elizabeth, wife of Ben- 
jamin Post. 



^/ Military and Oficial Record. 
The Posts in Colonial Days, as shoivn by the Colonial Records of 

Connecticut. 

Vol. from 1636 to 1665. 

Stephen Post directed to complete, as per contract, the house 
(meeting house supposed). 1649, p. 206. 

Appointed by Court to determine the value of cart wheels made 
by William \Saller. 1653, p. 241. 

General Court declares John and Thomas Post eligible to take 
freeman's oath. 1653 (Oct. 8), p. 412. 

Vol. from 1665 to 1677. 

Johx took freeman's oath, Norwich, 1666, p. 32. Is registered as 
such at Norwich, 1669, p. 523. 

Abraham Post, of Saybrook, is fined for neglect in making up 
accounts with treasurer. 1665. May 11, sworn in as freeman. 1665, 
p. 19. 

1667. The General Court appoints him Ensign of Saybrook Train 
Band. p. 60. 

1669. Takes freeman's oath at Saybrook, 1669. 

1669. Thomas takes the oath same time. 

Vol. 1668 to 1679. 

May 13, 1680, p. 51. Abram appointed Lieut. Saybrook Fort. 

1680. Appointed by court to establish boundary between New 
London and Mohegan. p. 71. 

May, 1681. Appointed to confer with Uncas, p. 81, and appointed 
to lay out land for Edward Griswold. 



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1670. Was deputy of General Court, p. 181. 

John Post appointed to lay out line between New London and 
Mohegan, May, 1C80, p. 176, and determine boundary of each, p. 189. 

Vol. 1689 to 1707. 

1690. Appointed to lay out land of Capt. Fitch, p. 57. 

1690. Appointed to lay out line between Stonnington and Preston, 
pp. 133, 150, 235. 

His widow, Sarah, Sept., 1693, is authorized to sell real estate 
or rather give deed for land contracted to sell by her husband, to 
John Armstrong, p. 105. In Oct., 1697, authorized to sell land for 
support of family. 

Joseph Post fined for neglect to file his tax report, 1708. 

Thomas has his fine for selling drinks without license remitted. 
1698, p. 281. 

Vol. 1706, 1716. 

1711. Abraham recovers judgment against Benjamin Wright, p. 
208. 

Stephex. Jr., appointed and reports laying out town Hebron, May, 
1707, p. 25. 1718, has tax abated, and authorized to pay on land in 
Crank Parish, and a part in Hebron. 

Vol. 7. 
Abram. Jr.. appointed by Court, Lieut. Train Band in 1737, p. 102. 

Vol. 9. 

Abram, Jr., appointed Ensign of the 10th Company, 5th Regiment 
Conn, troops, Oct., 1747, p. 320, and 1749 promoted to Lieutenant in 
7th Reg't., p. 460. 

Samuel in 1744 authorized to pay his tax on land in New Concord, 
Instead of Norwich. 

Thomas Post, Jr., appointed Lieut, of Gilead Parish, 1749, p. 408. 

Jedediah Post, Vol. 12, p. 418, appointed Ensign in the 15th Com- 
pany, 12th Reg't., Oct., 1765. 

RoswELL Post appointed Ensign in 10th Company, 1771, p. 435, Vol. 
13. 

John, Mary Dinah, Mindwell, Joseph Otis and Anna Post, children 
of Peter Post and Mary Perkins Post, 1773, Vol. 14, p. 50. 

RoswELL Post appointed Lieut., 10th Company, 7th Reg't., p. 274. 

Vol. 15, p. 424. Abraham Post. Jr.. appointed by the Assembly 
Ensign, 2nd Co., Col. Heman Swift's Battalion. 

JuRDON. Jr., appointed executor John Post, of Hebron, May, 1775, 
and account to probate dist.. East Hadam, p. 69. 

State Record, Vol. 2. 
Assembly, May 11, 1779, vote 50 cwt. flour and bread, 8 B's. Indian 
meal, be allowed for the stores of the armed sloop "Revenge," com- 
manded by Nathan Post.. P. 346. 



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Service of Posts in the War for Independence. 

Frorro "Connecticut Men in the Revolution." 

Abraham Post, Ensign in Litchfield, Co. 2d, Col. Heman Swift's 
Battalion, Northern Department, under Gen. Gates, 1777, p. 391. In 
vicinity of Ticonderoga. 

Augustus Post, Litchfield Co. In service with levies in the 4th 
Conn. Reg't, p. 191. 

Bnoc Post, Litchfield Co., with Abraham and Augustus, 1780, p. 
191. 

David, of Hebron, at Lexington Alarm, 1775, p. 14. 

Ebenezer Post, of Norwich, was a member of Capt. Durkee's Co., 
Conn. Line Reg't., and served from 1777, 1780. He served in 1781 in 
Capt. Hungerford's Co., pp. 321, 579. 

Ezra Post, of Brainford, served in 1781, with Capt. Nathaniel Ed- 
wards Co., Wadsworth's Brigade, p. 568. 

Jabez Post, of Norwich, served in Capt. Jeddediah Hyde's Co., 4th 
Reg't., Col. Durkee; was at battle of Germantown; wintered at Valley 
Forge, 1777-8, and at Battle of Monmouth, p. 184. 

Jeddediah. as fifer, first in the 8th Co., from June 16 to Dec. 17, 
1775, p. 89. He then occupied same position on board American 
frigate Confederacy, 1779, pp. 404 and 601. He was son of Abraham 3d, 
and a brother of Roswell 1st, born at Saybrook. 

There was a Jimmy Post, who entered the service as from Clinton, 
Middlesex Co., a pensioner under Act 1818, pp. 636, 654, 665. 

Joel, of Saybrook, served in Conn. Line, p. 613. 

Vermont was never a separate colony. It was known as Hamp- 
shire Grants. It was first settled in 1724. Massachusetts, in the belief 
that it was a part of the "Massachusetts Bay Grant," built Fort Dam- 
mer, where now stands the town of Brattleboro. In the French War 
of 1745, soldiers marched from this fort and also from the New Hamp- 
shire colony, against the French, along Lake Champlain, and thus 
became familiar with its rich valley and hills, so that at the close 
of the French War of 1755-1758, most of these soldiers, being farmers, 
flocked into the territory, much of which they settled on grants from 
New Hampshire; there were other portions claimed by New York, 
under grants made by Charles II., hence the controversy between 
New Hampshire and New York. 

Col. Allen, the Posts, the Meads, the Lyons, Chittendens, Wood, 
Robinson and others claimed under the Hampshire grants. In 1776, 
they petitioned Congress to be admitted to the Union, but the influence 
of New York was too strong, and their request was denied, and the 



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following year, these settlers, in convention, declared themselves 
independent, and a sovereign state, under the name of Vermont; chose 
a governor and council, and established a state Assembly. Lieut 
Roswell Post was a member of the Assembly, 1777 to 1790, and repre- 
sented Rutland County, then known as Otter Creek. Vermont was 
not admitted until 1791; New York being paid $30,000 for relinquish- 
ing her claims; New Hampshire surrendering its rights without charge. 

The following, from the proceedings of the Governor, Council and 
Assembly, indicates the prominent part taken by Roswell Post 1st, in 
the affairs of this new and independent State of Vermont: "Oct., 1780, 
Lieut. Roswell Post appointed one of a committee of three, to prepare 
instructions for the Board of War." P. 44, of Vol. 2. 

"Feb. 13, 1781, Lieut. Roswell Post appointed one of a committee 
to examine and report where the frontier line should be established 
for protection, and defense for the ensuing campaign." P. 72, Vol. 2. 

"Jan., 1781, Lieut. Roswell Post appointed one of a committee to 
pass upon the report and recommendations of the Board of War." 
P. 109, Vol. 2. 

He was a mem.ber of the committee of the convention of Cam- 
bridge, N. Y., and Windsor, Vt., to formulate the articles, as a basis 
for union between New York claimants and Vermont, of 1781. While 
Vermont was loyal to the cause of American Independence and in 
harmony with Congress, during the Revolutionary War; it neverthe- 
less, provided its soldiers with subsistence and paid other expenses 
incident out of its own treasury, and through its "Board of War," 
subject to the action of the Assembly, maintained and conducted the 
war as an independent state. When a call was made for aid by Con- 
gress, outside of the State, it never failed to respond. 



The Sherman Famil]^. 

The Shermans are of German origin. In the fatherland the name 
Sherman, Schurman, Schearmann, Scherman often occurs, and was 
no doubt transferred many centuries ago to the vicinity of London 
by the Anglo-Saxon emigration, where it still remains numerous. From 
this metropolitan stock, a scion was transplanted to Dedham, Essex 
Co., England, which long flourished, and sent forth other shoots. The 
name is derived from the original occupation of the family; they were 
cloth dressers, or shearers of cloth. The family at Dedham retained 
the family occupation, and also the coat-of-arms worn by those resid- 
ing in and about London. 

In New England are found two distinct families bearing the name 
of Sherman. One of these descends from William Sherman, who 



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came to Plymouth about 1630, and settled in Marshfleld, where his 
descendants still remain. Of the place of his birth, or English ante- 
cedents, we know nothing. 

The other is the Dedham stock, a branch of which emigrated to 
New England, and settled in the vicinity of Boston. The family here 
recorded is of the Dedham stock. 

I. Thomas Shearman, of Suffolk Co., England, is known to have 
had a son Henry. Thomas was buried at Dedham, March 16, 1564. 
(Parish register begins 1560.) 

II. Henry Shearman, of Dedham, born about 1520 or earlier, mar- 
ried Agnes Butler, and had: 

1. Henry. (See following). 

2. Edmond, m. 1st, Ann Pellate, 1569; 2nd, Anne Cleare, 1584. 

d. 1600. 

3. Judith, m. Pettfield, Oct. 27, 1566. 

4. John, buried Oct. 16, 1576. 

5. Robert, "a Doctor of Physick in London; bapt. Feb'y 6, 1560; 

died 1605; wife Bridget." 
Agnes, wife of Henry, was buried in Dedham, Oct. 14, 1580. Henry 
was buried in Dedham, 1589; also had a daughter, "wife of Nicholas 
Fynce." 

III. Henrt Shearman, a clothier in Dedham, married Susan 
Hills. He was buried Aug. 28, 1610. Susan, his wife, buried Sept. 13, 
1610. 

They had: 

1. Phoebe, bapt. May 1, 1570, m. Simon Fenn. 

2. Henry, 1571, bapt. Aug. 26. 

3. Samuel, 1573. (See following.) 

4. Susan, 1575. 

5. Edmond, 1577, m. Judith Anger. 

6. Nathaniel, 1580; d. 1580. 

7. Nathaniel, 1582. 

8. John, 1585, bapt. Aug. 17. 

9. Elizabeth. 

10. Ezekiel, 1589. 

11. Mary, 1592. 

12. Daniel, 1602. 

13. Anne, m. Anthony Whighting. 

IV. Samitel Shearman, born 1573, married Phillis (or PhilUppa) 
Ward (or Upcher), died in Dedham 1615, wife then living. Had: 

1. Mary, bapt. Oct. 2, 1599. 

2. Samuel, b. Oct. 20, 1601; (a twin) died in Boston, Mass., 1645. 

Married 1st Grace , 2nd Naomi , and had 

Henry, who died young. 



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3. Henry, b. January 25, 1603; died in Boston 1G51. 

4. Martha, b. June 24, 1G04. 

5. Sarah, b. February 11, 1606, buried Dec. 5, 1612. 

6. Philip, bapt. February 5, 1610. (See following.) 

V. Philip Shearman, Hon., was born in Dedham, England, bap- 
tized Feb'y 5, 1610, and died in Portsmouth, R. I., 1687. He married 
Sarah Odding, a daughter of Mrs. John Porter by a former husband. 
In 1633 he emigrated to New England, and settled in Roxbury, Mass., 
and in the same year was admitted Freeman. In the Ann Hutchinson 
troubles in Boston, he took the popular side; but as Gov. Winthrop 
ultimately prevailed, he with others found it convenient to emigrate 
to Rhode Island. In Providence they met Roger Williams, who ad- 
vised them to purchase the island of Aquetnet (now Rhode Island) of 
the Indians. The purchase was completed March 24, 1638. On the 
first day of July, 1639, they established a regular government, of 
which Coddington was chosen governor, and Philip Shearman secre- 
tary. After this he often held office in the colony, and in critical 
periods, as a man of intelligence was frequently consulted by those in 
authority. The early records prepared by hini still remain in Ports- 
mouth, and show him to have been a very neat and expert penman, as 
well as an educated man. After he removed to Rhode Island he left 
the Congregational Church, and united with the Society of Friends. 
Tradition affirms that he was a devout, but determined man. He had: 

1. Eber, b. 1634 in Roxbury, Mass. Married Mary ; died 

1706. 

2. Sarah, b. Roxbury, 1636; m. Thomas Mumford of S. Kingston, 

R. I.; died 1719. 

3. Peleg (see following). 

4. Mary, b. 1639; died 1644. 

5. Edmund (see following). 

6. Samson, b. 1642; m. March 4, 1674, Isabel Tripp; died 1718. 

7. William, b. 1643; d. 1646. 

8. John, b. 1644; m. Sarah Spooner; d. 1734. 

9. Mary, b. 1645; m. Samuel Wilbur of Swansea 1663. 
Also Hannah, Samuel, Benjamin and Phillipa. 

VI. Edmund Sheaeman, fifth child of Philip and Sarah Shearman, 
was born in Portsm.outh, R. I., in 1641. He settled on lands owned by 
his father in Dartmouth, Mass., and was a leading man in that set- 
tlement. 

He married Dorcas , and had: 

1. Elkanah (see following). 

2. Nathaniel, born May 1, 1676. 

3. Nathan, b. Feb'y 1, 1678; m. 1st, Freelove ; 2nd, Widow 

Mary Taylor. 



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4. David, b. Jan'y 1, 1680; m. Abigail Hathaway Dec. 27, 1710. 

5. Lydia, b. Feb'y 1, 1682; m. Timothy Maxfield Jan'y 15, 1707. 

6. Samuel, b. July 27, 1686; m. Hannah . 

7. Elnathan, b. Oct. 1, 1694; m. . 

8. Joseph, b. 1698; m. Elizabeth. 

VII. Elkanah Shearman was born in Dartmouth, Mass., May 7, 
1674; married first, Elizabeth Manchester, Jan'y 15, 1719. She died 
Aug. 1, 1730. He m. 2nd, Margaret Pitts, 1731. Children all by first 
wife: 

1. George, b. Nov. 10, 1719. (See following.) 

2. Job, b. Jan'y 10, 1720-1. 

3. Elkanah, Jr., b. April 25, 1722. 

4. Ruth, b. Jan'y 27, 1724. 

5. Content, b. Sept. 26, 1726. 

6. Peter, b. Sept. 24, 1728. 

7. Elizabeth, b. Aug. 1, 1730. 

VIII. George Shearman, oldest child of Elkanah and Elizabeth 
Shearman, was born in Dartmouth, Mass., Nov. 10, 1719; m. Rebecca, 
daughter of William and Dorothy (Russell) Shearman, (see Peleg 
line), April 6. 1743. He died in Ira, Vt., Feb'y 2, 1794. They had: 

1. Caleb, born in Dartmouth, Sept. 30, 1743. 

2. Joshua, b. Smithfield, May 6, 1745. 

3. Ruth, b. Smithfield, May 24, 1746; m. Joseph Baker. 

4. William, b. Cumberland, April 14, 1748. Probably died un- 
married. 

5. George, b. Cumberland, July 17, 1749. (See following.) 

IX. George Sherman, fifth child of George and Rebecca Shearman, 
born in Cumberland, R. I., July 17, 1749, married at Sackville, Nova 
Scotia, June 4, 1768-9, Chloe Mason, daughter of Elder Nathan and 
Elizabeth (Wood) Mason, born in Swansea, Mass., June 16, 1751. 
He died in Morjah, N. Y., April 20, 1821. Chloe died in Brighton, N. Y., 
Aug. 23, 1843. 

George Sherman was a soldier of the Revolution. Enlisted in 1777 
as a private in Capt. David Brown's Co., Benjamin Simons, Col. He 
was a minute man, and out only on alarms or emergencies. Was at 
Bennington battle, and on duty at the surrender of Gen. Burgoyne. 
He resided at the time of his enlistment in Adams, Berkshire Co., 
Mass. Lived in Lanesboro in 1772-3, removed to Adams, then to 
Rutland, Vt. They had: 

1. Olive, b. in Lanesboro, Sept. 5, 1773; m. Jonathan Colvin. 

2. Nathan, b. Adams, Feb'y 7, 1775; m. Mary (Polly) Carpenter. 

3. Caleb, b. in Ira, Vt., June 3, 1778; m. Orilla Joyner. 

4. Chloe, b. Ira, Dec. 11, 1781; m. Asa Collins Oct. 8, 1802. 



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5. George, b. Ira, April 26, 1787; m. Eunice Hewitt. 

6. Elizabeth, b. Ira, Dec. 15, 1790; m. 1st, John Hill; 2nd, Solo- 

mon Everest. 

7. Sarah, b. Ira, Jan'y 25, 1793; m. Samuel Smith. 

8. Reubel, b. Ira, March 12, 1796; m. Sally Lyon. 

The will of George Shearman, Sr., also mentions the following 
children: 

Japhet. 

Rebecca, "wife of John Collins." 

Elizabeth Wilber. 

Mary Mason (probably married Sampson Mason of N. Adams). 

Sarah Newton. 

Sarah Sherman, married in Ira, Vt., Mar. 18, 1784, Samuel 

Newton. 
Rebecca, wife of George, Sr., was living in Nov., 1789, when the 
will was made. 



LINE FROM PELEG SHEARMAN. 

(Rebecca, wife or George Sherman VIII.) 

VI. Peleg 3rd, child of Philip and Sarah (Odding) Shearman, was 
born in Portsmouth, R. I., in 1638; m. Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas 
Lawton, July 25, 1657; died 1719. He was a farmer and resided upon 
the homestead in his native town. Had: 

1. Thomas, b. Aug. 8, 1658; m. May 26, 1702, Lydia Willcox (or 

Wilkinson), (probably second wife). Died before 1720, 
in which year his widow married Thomas Potter. 

2. William. (See following.) 

3. Daniel, b. June 15, 1662. Lived in Dartmouth. Had Ebe- 

nezer, James, Seth. (Descendants of latter in Western 
New York.) 

4. Mary, b. Dec. 11, 1664; m. Lot Strange. 

5. Peleg, b. Oct. 8, 1666; m. Nov. 16, 1697, to Alice Fish. 

6. Ann, b. April 30, 1668. 

7. Elizabeth, b. Nov. 25, 1670. 

8. Samuel, b. Oct. 15, 1672. Removed to Tiverton. Had William, 

Joseph, Peleg. 

9. Eber, b. Oct. 20, 1674; m. Honora ; removed to Swansea. 

10. John, b. Oct. 28, 1676. 

11. Benjamin, b. July 15, 1677; m. Martha Cook, Feb'y 18, 1717-18. 

12. Sarah, b. Jan'y 2, 1679. 

13. Isabell, b. June 3, 1683. 

14. George, b. Dec. 18, 1687. 



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VII. William, 2d, child of Peleg and Elizabeth (Lawton) Sher- 
man, was born in Portsmouth, R. I., Oct. 3, 1659; m. May 12, 1681, 
Martha Wilbur; died 1749. Children born in Dartmouth: 

1. William. (See following.) 

2. Thomas, b. 1684. 

3. Eleanor, b. 1686; m. Potter. 

4. Mary, b. 1688; m. Daniel Shepard. 

5. Elizabeth, b. 1690; m. Maxfield. 

6. Peleg, b. 1692; died 1772; m. Elizabeth . No issue. 

7. Benjamin, b. 1694, died in 1773. No issue. 

8. Sarah, b. 1696; m. John Cornell, April 7, 1724. 

9. Hannah, b. 1699; m. Fortunatus Cornell. 

Vni. William, oldest child of William and Martha (Wilbur) 
Sherman, born 1682; m. June 4, 1713, Dorothy Russell, daughter of 
Jonathan and Mary Russell, b. May 21, 1684, died 1772. Children 
born in Dartmouth. 

1. Caleb, b. Nov. 3, 1714; died June 19, 1728. 

2. Jonathan, b. Dec. 3, 1716; m. Susanna 

3. Rebecca, b. March 20, 1718; m. George Sherman VIII, son of 

Elkanah Sherman VII. 

4. William, b. March 15, 1720. 

5. Martha, b. Feb'y 27, 1722. 

6. Elizabeth, b. Jan'y 25, 1726; m. Wood. 



LINE FROM CHLOE. 

Second Daughter of George and Chloe (Mason) Sherman. 

Asa Collins, b. April 8, 1777 (son of Benoni and grandson of 
Thomas), m. Oct. 8, 1802, Chloe, 2nd daughter of George and Chloe 
(Mason) Sherman. They moved from Ira, Vt., to Schaghticoke, Rens- 
selaer Co., N. Y., about 1803; moved back to Ira in 1815. Are both 
buried in New Hudson, Oakland Co., Mich. They had'. 

1. Burr J., b. Oct. 1803, in Clarendon, Vt.; died there January U. 

1836, in 33rd year of his age; buried in Chippenhook Ceme- 
tery, Rutland Co., Vt. 

2. Almira Moriah, b. Dec. 22, 1805; d. 1896. M. 1st, Jeremiah 

Colvin (son of Jonathan and Olive (Sherman) Colvin). 
Jeremiah d. Oct. 14, 1826. They had one daughter, Jane, 
born Aug. 21, 1824; died 1874; m. 1851, Henry Webb. 
Daughter Grace, born Nov. 16, 1855, died Dec. 26, 1875. 
Almira m. 2nd, Asa Chaffee, who lived 8 mo. She married 
3rd, Edmond Russell Post. Had: 

Hoyt, attorney at law, living in Detroit; born April 8, 
1837; married Feb. 7, 1867, Plelen Deborah Hudson. 

James Alexis, surgeon in Civil War. Lives in Detroit. 



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Secretary of Association of Charities. Born Nov. 18, 
1838; married April 5, 1864, Katharine M. Goodwin. 

Verona Louisa, teacher in Detroit. Born Feb. 7, 1841. 

Julia Laurentia, born Jan. 10, 1843. 

Xenia, born Feb. 11, 1848. 

Three sisters live together in Birmingham, near Detroit. 

3. Lydia, b. 1808; m. Harley Round; had two sons, Asa C. and 

Byron, all buried at Commerce, Mich. Harley Round d. 
Feb. 22, 1899, aet. 95. 

4. Charlotte Adelia, b. 1811; m. Zeri Cushman Colvin, cousin of 

Jeremiah. Had: 

Mary Elizabeth, died young in Verm.ont. 

Helen May, m. Elijah Coldren; had dau. Bertha — all dead. 

Sarah Newton. 

All buried at New Hudson, Mich. 

5. Verona Louise, b. Jan. 1, 1814, in Schaghticoke, m. May 31, 

1860, Melvin Rose. His second wife. He died Feb. 2, 1899. 
She lived at Pontiac, Mich. Died May 20, 1902, at Bir- 
mingham, Mich. Buried near South Lyon. 

6. William Henry, b. April 28, 1816, d. Dec, 1898, buried at New 

Hudson, Mich.; m. Ellen Douglas Crawford, b. in Greenock, 
Scotland. Had: 

Ada Byron, m. John L. Hussey, 1875; had Grace Douglas, 
born Nov., 1878, and Hoyt Post, born May, 1883. Lives 
in Atlanta, Ga. 

Editha Godwin, m. Otis Ashmore, Jan. 16, 1884; had son 
Frederick, born Oct., 1885, died at age of 7, buried at 
Bonaventure. Lives in Savannah, Ga. 

John m. Sarah, 2nd dau. of Hoyt Post. She died soon 
after marriage. (See record of Post family.) M. (2) 
Carrie Baxter, and had by her Douglas Brewster Col- 
lins, b. Oct. 4, 1904; John Collins died Jan. 1, 1905. 

Ella, m. Dr. W. Z. Holliday, of Augusta. Ga.; had daugh- 
ter Edith, born Aug., 1887. 

Wilkie, a dentist, practicing in Detroit; lives with his 
mother in Detroit. 

Hunter, m. Emily Virginia Dagenais, Sept. 26, 1906; a den- 
tist, practicing in Detroit; lives with his mother in 
Detroit. 

7. Chloe S., b. 1819; died in Clarendon, Vt., May 6, 1838. set. 18. 

Buried at Chippenhook, Vt. 

8. Asa Willmarth, born 1823; died in Clarendon, Sept. 5, 1826, 

aet. 3. Buried Chippenhook, Vt. 



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